Comrade Bagayev!

I thank you most heartily for your greetings and good wishes. I apologize that owing to ill health I cannot arrange a meeting. I ask you to contact Comrade Sverdlov.

I ask you to convey to the comrades of the Astrakhan Cossacks my very best wishes and greetings.

Moscow. 25/IX. 1918.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1942. Printed from a photostat
in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV from the manuscript

TO L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B.! Recover soon.

Concerning the "glorious theory of maneuvering."

All theories are good if they correspond to objective reality.

There exists a typewritten text of this document signed by V. I. Lenin. —Ed.

TO YA. M. SVERDLOV AND L. D. TROTSKY. 1 OCTOBER 1918

And our reality has changed, because if Germany is defeated, then maneuvering becomes impossible, since there are no longer 2 warring parties between which we maneuvered!!
America. England will gobble [us up], if not... the Red Army.

We should not, in my opinion, begin negotiations about revising Brest, because now it would be a running-ahead... One must wait.

Recover!

Greetings! Yours, Lenin